Speech Thing

From: Ram Meenakshisundaram <rmeenaks_at_olf.com>
Date: Thu Mar 18 08:19:21 1999

I have the speech thing! It's been a long time since I fired up that baby.
I used
for speech synthesis and voice recognization eons ago. This was before the
Sound
Blaster for PCs. Let me look around and see if I still have the software...


Ram

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Willgruber <roblwill_at_usaor.net>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: Speech Thing


>O.K. At least I know what it is. Anyone have any idea where to get
>software for it??
>
>ThAnX,
>--
> -Jason Willgruber
> (roblwill_at_usaor.net)
> ICQ#: 1730318
><http://members.tripod.com/general_1>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Ruschmeyer <jruschme_at_exit109.com>
>To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
><classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
>Date: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 8:13 PM
>Subject: Re: Speech Thing
>
>
>>
>>IIRC, the Speech Thing was what it sounds like, a speech synthasizer for
>>the IBM PC. Basically, it plugged into the parallel port. The other end
>>of the wire was probably a speaker (amplified, most likely).
>>
>>I seem to recall Covox being very big into speech recognizition and
>>synthesis many years back.
>>
>><<<John>>>
>>
>
>
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